The Photographs of Marilyn Nance

Event Date: November 9, 2004

Marilyn
Nance is a new media artist, photographer
and storyteller.
Her lecture and slide presentation
present photographs from the Library
of Congress' collections and from Ms.
Nance's personal collections in a visual
exploration of personal, cultural and
national history.

Nance received
the 2000 and 1989 New York Foundation
for the Arts Fellowship in Photography,
a 1993 NYFA Fellowship in Nonfiction
Literature,
and a 1987
New York State Council of the Arts
Grant. A two-time finalist for
the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic
Photography for her body of work
on African spiritual culture in America,
Nance photographed
the Black Indians of New Orleans,
an
African religious village in South
Carolina, a Baptist Church in Brooklyn,
and the first Black Church in
America. She is recognized by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage as a community
folklore scholar, an individual who
has shown
significant contribution to the collection,
preservation
and presentation of a traditional
culture or region.

In addition to the photographs held
by the Library of Congress, Nance's
photographs can be found in the collections
of the Smithsonian
Institution's
National
Museum of American Art and the Schomburg
Center for Research
in Black Culture. Her work
has been published in A World
History of Photography, The
Black Photographers Annual, Life,
the New York Times,
the Village Voice, Essence, Aperture, NY Newsday, and A History
of Women Photographers, and her
photographs have been exhibited in
the Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran
Gallery,
the Brooklyn Museum, and the Smithsonian
Institution.